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of the room is dominated by a huge glass counter full of croissants, muffins and bagels.
“This is my favorite coffee shop.” He says pulling me over to the counter to order.
“I’ll have a plain bagel and a de-calf, mocha latte, with whip cream. Thanks.” I say to the lady behind the counter.
“And I’ll have my usual, Jenny. Thanks” He says looking at me.
“Yes, Keith and who’s this?” Jenny asks eyeing me.
“Oh, Jenny this is Bailey. Bailey this is Jenny.” He introduces us. Jenny has long, thick, blond hair, and eyes that are too big for her face.
“Hi.” Jenny’s voice is bitter.
“Hi, I just moved here from Connecticut.” I say sticking out my hand which she ignores, I pull my hand back. What did I do?
“Twelve fifty.” She says looking at Keith. He pulls out his wallet and before I can stop him, pays for my coffee and bagel.
“Oh no, don’t do that. I can pay for my own breakfast.” He ignores my comment, picks up our breakfast and walks to a table.
“I’m taking you to breakfast, I’m going to pay for breakfast.” He says putting the food on the table. “Here you are ma’ lady” He motions for me to sit down in the chair he is pulling out from the table. As I sit down I see Jenny glaring at me from the other side of the shop. What is her problem?
“So how do you know Jenny?” I ask trying to ignore her eyes on my back.
“Oh… um we go to school together. Why?” He looks up at me from his coffee.
“I don’t think she likes me.”
“Why do you say that?”
“I don’t know, maybe the way she’s glaring at me.” I point at her and she quickly turns her attention to the customer in front of her.
“Well, we use to date.” He offers
“Maybe she’s till hung up on you?”
“I doubt that, she dumped me.” He says
“That means nothing. Some times girls dump boys then want them back.”
“Can we change subjects please? I don’t want to talk about my ex-girlfriends.” He gives me a pleading look.
“Yes, definitely!” I answer quickly.
“What are you going to do with Lisa?” He asks after a minute
“Well I was hoping we could go shopping. I need some new clothes. Do you think she’d like shopping with me? Is she the shopping type?”
“I don’t know, we don’t really hang out much.” He pushes his plate way.
“Oh.” I look down and push my plate away too.
“Ready to go?” He asks.
“Yep.” I say. He stands up and helps me out of my chair. We walk back down the street toward my house. A block away from the coffee place Keith takes my hand in his and I can feel my cheeks start to heat up.
“So the party tonight? Where is it?” I ask.
“My friend Megan’s house. I’ll come get you at eight. Okay?”
“Sounds good to me.” I tell him.
He walks me up the stairs and stands with me while I unlock the door. The door swings open and I turn to him.
“I’ll see you tonight.”
“Yea.” He says leaning forward. Oh shit is he going to kiss me? I pull away, say goodbye and go inside. We’ve been on two dates and he’s trying to kiss me! A few minutes later Lisa is standing in the doorway watching me run around looking for my purse.
“Aha! I found it, let’s go.” I say.
“Ok, where to?” she looks at me questionably.
“I was hoping you would know where to go.” I answer.
“Well the is this cute little shop down town?” Her responds comes out more like a question then a statement.
“Sounds perfect. Let’s go.” I know I must look overly exited which I am.
Two hours later I’ve got four bags hanging from my arms and Lisa has one.
“So are you, like, dating my brother now?” Her question catches me off guard.
“Um… I… I don’t think I can answer that question. We’ve only been on two dates. So, um, yea, I don’t think so, maybe. Don’t get me wrong, I really like him and I want to go out with him, but I just got out of a really long relationship. Oh wait! Your not going to tell him this are you? Oh god, please don’t!” I almost get down onto my knees and beg her not to tell him.
“Relax I won’t tell him.” She is smiling from ear to ear. Just then my cell phone beeps alerting me of a text. It’s from Keith.
Keith: Where r u?
“What should I tell him?”
“Um… tell him that we’re on our way back to your house and we’ll meet him there.” She tells me.
“No, we need time to get ready.” I reply “I got it!”
Me: It’s 7 u said u get me at 8!
Keith: So?
Me: I need time
Keith: ok ok I’ll get u at 8
“Let’s go! We only have an hour!” I say grabbing Lisa’s arm and tugging her toward my house.
“We? You mean you? Right?”
“No, I mean us.” I smile “Oh and who was that guy you were walking with on the beach last night?”
“Oh… um… that’s Jake.” What? Jake? Suddenly I feel warm pavement on my cheek, and some one shaking me.
“Bailey! Bailey!” Lisa’s voice is full of worry. I sit up disoriented.
“Why the hell am I on the ground?” I ask.
“You fainted. Are you alright? Do you faint a lot?”
“I’m fine and no I don’t faint often.” I say trying not to yell at her for asking too many questions.
“Let’s go. Help me up.” She helps me up and we race back to my house. I have an hour to get ready and fix Lisa’s look! First I take a shower, then I make Lisa take one.
“I don’t see what’s wrong with my look!” Lisa protests after she gets out of the shower.
I hold up the turtle neck sweater she bought today. “We’re in California! Don’t wear turtle necks!” I say throwing it back into it’s bag. “First brush your hair.” I say handing her my brush, I brushed my hair and got dressed while she showered. I have on the new pink tub top and a pair of white shorts I got today.
“Hurry! We only have thirty minutes!” I yell, taking the brush from her and yank it through her hair. Next I whip out my make up bag, instructing her on how to put on blush, eye shadow and so on. After we’re done with make-up I make her put on the out fit I choose for her, a light blue T-shirt, gray shorts, and her black sneakers.
“Thanks for the shorts and the top. I’ll meet you at there, I’m meeting Jake before the party. See you later.” Lisa turns and walks down stairs.

I sit down on the bottom step and wait for Keith. Just as Keith walks over my cell phone starts to beep. Who could that be? I look at the caller ID and my heart nearly stops… it’s Jake. I look up at Keith’s smiling face as I open the phone
“Hello.” I say bitterly.
“I miss you babe.” Jake’s voice comes through the phone.
“FUCK YOU!” I almost scream into the phone.
I slap my phone shut and get up off the step. I smile up at Keith as he slips his hand into mine, like I didn’t just scream “fuck you” at some one. Are we dating?
“Um… could I ask you question?” I ask.
“Sure.” He looks down at me
“Um… are we a couple?” I ask looking down at my feet.
“Um I don’t know are we? I wouldn’t object if you wanted to go out.”
“So is that a yes?” I ask, I want a yes or no answer.
“Yes, if you don’t mind.”
“Why would I mind?” I say as he raps his arms around my waist.
New Boy

Chapter 3
New Boy

We arrive at the party at eight-fifteen. Every one turns to look at us when we walk in, most of the girls are glaring (at me) and the boys have big grins plastered to the faces. Keith pulls me over to a group of people in the center of the room, they all look at me with smiles on the faces (even the girls). We stand there staring at each other until I elbow Keith in the side, silently telling him to introduce us.
“Oh! Every one this is Bailey. Bailey this is every one.” He says
“Hi, I’m Megan” A girl with curly red hair and bright eyes says.
“Hey, Bailey I’m Aaron” A boy with short, black hair introduces himself.
“Jordan.” A pale girl with limp brown hair waves at me.
“I’m Taylor.” Taylor is a boy with long, brown hair and deep black eyes.
“Hey, I’m Alex.” Alex has that hair that’s so blond it’s almost white, a big smile and I can’t help but notice when he checks me out.
“I’m Mitch. Brittany, Kelsey, and Logan are coming” I boy with very short, light brown hair says.
“Well, I’m Bailey and I just moved here from Connecticut” I say
After a few minutes of watching people talk I notice two girls behind me whispering they point at me and I strain to listen to them.
“Why does Keith have his arm around the slut’s waist?” One of them whispers. I whirl around and stare at them.
“Who are you calling a slut!” I demand. One of the girls looks scared, the other seems please that I heard.
“You, bitch!” The one that looks pleased replies.
“You don’t even know me how can you call me a slut and a bitch!” I scream, yanking my hand from Keith’s I run from the room. Sitting down on the front steps I can hear people inside laughing. I start rocking back and forth as the tears start to come. Damn I’m not wearing waterproof! I quickly pull out a tissue and start dappling my eyes. I feel Keith hand on my arm, he turns me so I’m facing him.
“Hey, are you alright?”
“No! Girls I don’t even know just called me a bitch!”
He sits down next to me and wraps his arms around me. “Don’t worry about them they’re jerks. No one likes them, no one listens to them and you shouldn’t either. Why don’t we go back inside?”
“I don’t want to go back inside.” Ignoring me, he pulls me to my feet and back inside.
When we get back inside Keith pulls me onto the dance floor. The DJ puts on “When the stars go blue” and we start to sway back and forth. I can feel his hands